My concentration is...people interacting with their environment. Put more specifically, it is how spatial relationships visually portray personal/ emotional relationships between two people or a person and an object.
The picture on the left shows the relationship between Christina and my puppy. I was first drawn to the concept of the image because they both looked so at peace and I wanted to portray this relationship effectively in a piece of artwork. I was excited to do a more close up, portrait-style piece, which I hadn't really done yet in my concentration as well as work in solely acrylic paint. While I had some technical difficulties while painting and I wish the painting had a little more depth, I am pretty happy with the overall effect of the piece.
The picture on the right is of Monica and her younger sister on a day at the beach a few years ago (when Monica was in sixth grade :] ) I liked a lot of the open space in this picture and the familiarity between the sisters that I saw even though they weren't actively interacting with each other in the moment. I used the same media in this picture as I used in my pine cone piece which was watered down acrylics with pastels; however, in this piece I also used verithin prismacolor pencils for the detailing of their bodies and faces. I like how the rocks turned out and how the shading of their bodies turned out, but getting their faces right was difficult due to the drastic shadows and lack of clarity around their eyes. I also like the picture much better in person, for some reason it looks really blurry on the computer.
